Science
A chart where all the elements are organized into periods and groups according to their properties.
What is the Periodic Table of Elements?
The number of bytes in a kilobyte.
What is 1024?
A mechanical device that can be programmed to perform tasks.
What is a robot?
The equation of a straight line.
What is y = mx + b?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
A self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information and contains the coded instructions for cells.
What is DNA?
Process of converting readable data into unreadable characters to prevent unauthorized access.
What is encryption?
This unsinkable ship was 882 ft long.
What is the Titanic?
A relationship or expression involving one or more variables.
What is a function?
The world record for calculating digits of pi was recently broken by Google engineer Emma Haruka Iwao who calculated it to _______ digits.
What is 31.4 trillion?
A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
What is a theory?
The device deciphered by Alan Turing's and Gordon Welchman's electromechanical machine in WWII.
What is the German Enigma machine?
An electrical device that changes direct current to alternating current.
What is an Alternator?
A sequence of numbers in which each number is the sum of the preceding two.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
It should take no more than 20 moves to solve this puzzle no matter which of the 43 quintillion possible starting positions you begin with.
What is a Rubik's cube?
Raw or unorganized facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
What is data?
This keyboard layout is estimated to be 12 to 20 times more efficient than today's commonly-used QWERTY keyboard.
What is Dvorak?
Nicknamed Galloping Gertie - this suspension bridge opened in 1940 became famous four months later for a dramatic wind-induced structural collapse.
What is the Tacoma Washington Bridge?
This is a unit of time which represents 1/100th of a second.
What is a jiffy?
The fattest human organ.
What is the brain?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize (for Physics in 1903).
Who is Marie Curie?
The first animal to go into orbit launched on board the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on November 3, 1957.
What is Laika the dog?
This person has received more U.S. patents than anyone else with 1,093 patents to be exact.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Golden Ratio
What is 1 : 1.618?
This person performed the first human heart transplant in 1967.
Dr. Christiaan Barnard